UFO experts have waded into a debate about a newly released document which purports to be US Government proof that the Roswell UFO crash actually happened.

A page from the document that many in the UFO community believe is a blatant hoax.

This week Express.co.uk revealed that a report had surfaced, allegedly leaked from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which confirmed the legendary Roswell UFO crash happened, dead aliens were found, and there was a Government cover up.

Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a top-secret US military base.

The 47-page dossier, said to be drafted in the 1980s, contains a six-page report on the Roswell incident, detailing how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3 1947, and four decomposing alien bodies were recovered two miles from the crash site a week later.

So far the consensus among UFO experts seems to be that the report is nothing but an elaborate hoax.

Nick Pope, who investigated the UFO phenomena for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) until 2009, described them as "fake with a capital F".

Mr Pope, who now speaks at UFO conferences across the globe, told Express.co.uk: "These documents are completely and utterly bogus.

"As with previous such documents that have surfaced in the US, I suspect they've been hoaxed by someone on the fringes of the UFO community, playing an elaborate practical joke to see if they can put one over on the true believers."

He spent 21 years in the MoD and said he knew how genuine documents were prepared.

He said: "The language and the wider Œfeel¹ of these UFO documents is just plain wrong.

"It¹s as if someone was playing buzzword bingo with all the words and phrases that excite UFO believers, and throwing in some New Age philosophy for good measure.

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British UFO investigator Nick Redfern is convinced they are fake, and not part of a government misinformation conspiracy.

He said on Facebook: "While I don't know who faked those new MJ12 documents, there's not a chance this is disinformation by a government agency.

"This is probably the work of someone in Ufology, who is just waiting for certain UFO researchers to endorse the documents - and then the hoaxer will come forward and explain how and why he did it."

He said with the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident next month it was perfect timing.

He added: "I am looking forward to seeing certain ufological fence-sitters who will 100 percent refuse to denounce the documents.

"Why won't they denounce them? Because they fear they won't get booked at next year's conference here, or conference there, and are fearful of not being in with the 'in-crowd' of Ufology anymore."

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Kevin Randle, a US Ufologist, who worked at length on the Roswell case, said they were fake in a lengthy blog post that tore apart discrepancies in them.

He said: "The writing does not sound as if it came from a government source, and without names, without government agencies, without any way to check things out, this just doesn¹t seem to be authentic."

Mr Randle blogged about Ms Wade¹s source writing: "I did ask Heather Wade about the source, or sources, and she didn¹t give me names, only that they were ex-military and had possessed the documents for a very long time.

"She didn¹t know which government agency had originated them, and there seemed no way to verify them through government sources."

The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), set up to lobby the US Government to end an alleged truth embargo which covers up the existence of aliens on Earth, is sitting on the fence.

It has described the documents as important, but accepts they could be fake.

It released a statement saying: "Over the coming weeks PRG will work closely with leading researchers into the history of the truth embargo and ET related government documents to determine the quality of this evidence."

It gave four possible explanations:

*Government disinformation

*Fully legitimate government documents

*A hoax by a debunker

*A hoax by a believer

It added: "The first two options are the most likely and about equal in probability."

Steve Bassett, PRG founder, later said on Facebook: "Whatever the status of this document - real, hoax or disinformation - PRG's principal concern is that top researchers in

the extraterrestrial phenomena research field be the first to assess this document and to the extent possible run it to ground before the debunkers and trolls do their thing.

"The message is this to either government disinformation entities or knucklehead hoaxers: this is not 1960 or 1970 or 1980 or 1990.

"It is 2017 and disinformation and hoaxes will be engaged immediately and your misguided effort will amount to little."